Flora Renz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1466591 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Flora Renz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Flora |
| FAMILY NAME | Renz |
| SIGNATURE | RENZ F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1259-2923 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Gender (de)certification and the home
This article considers three sites that draw out the contemporary role of gender categories in the home in the context of a wider project on gender decertification. Firstly, the presence of those who are employed to do care work in the home. Secondly, the introduction of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 and the way in which the parliamentary debates surrounding the introduction of the DAA highlight appropriate and inappropriate areas of legal interven…
Disability, chronic illness and Covid-19
This article aims to consider the COVID-19 pandemic as a unique case study for analysing the relationship between utopia and failure in the context of disabled people's efforts to create COVID-safe communities and spaces. As such it contributes both to literature on disabled people's utopianism and analyses the relationship between utopia and failure from two different angles. Firstly, utopia and its relationship to failure is explored in the sen…
Introduction to Special Issue
of Legal Gender project, which formally started in 2018 (in design from 2015), decided to research this question, to ask: Are there good reasons to continue to accord sex and gender legal status in Britain, including in light of developments elsewhere?In response to this question, we investigated contemporary socio-political uses of sex and gender categories, in Britain, as well as movements in other directions.With its manifold distinctions and …
Gender-Based Violence Without a Legal Gender
This article considers what the implications of decertification would be for single-sex services such as domestic and sexual violence support. Some reform options attached to decertification could (re)allocate authority away from the state to organisations or individuals to determine gender criteria. What would the consequences of such re-allocation be in determining eligibility to receive or access services or excluding people on the basis of a …
The Boundaries of Legal Personhood
By considering the death of the disability activist Engracia Figueroa as the consequence of her wheelchair being damaged by an airline, this article asks whether law could accommodate a definition of legal personhood that encompasses the possibility of bodies augmented by prosthetics, technology, and mobility aids. The use of mobility aids by disabled people and the role of prosthetic penises in so-called ‘gender fraud’ cases offer two useful pro…
Reimagining Gender Through Equality Law
British equality law protections for sex and gender reassignment have grown fraught as activists tussle over legal and social categories of gender, gender transitioning, and sex. This article considers the future of gender-related equality protections in relation to ‘decertification’—an imagined reform that would detach sex and gender from legal personhood. One criticism of decertification is that de-formalising gender membership would undermine …
Deconstructing the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender victim of sex trafficking
Contrary to widespread belief, sex trafficking also targets lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) communities. Contemporary social and political constructions of victimhood lie at the heart of regulatory policies on sex trafficking. Led by the US Department of State, knowledge about LGBT victims of trafficking constitutes the newest frontier in the expansion of criminalization measures. These measures represent a crucial shift. From a burgeo…
If the State Decertified Gender, What Might Happen to its Meaning and Value
As jurisdictions reform gender identity laws to accommodate transgender and intersex people, this article speculatively explores a more fundamental shift: eliminating state law's role in determining and assigning gender status altogether. Adopting a feminist perspective, we explore what the meaning and effects of comprehensively reforming legal gender might be upon gender's constitution as a socio‐legal property, differentially recognized and pro…
Deconstructing the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender victim of sex trafficking
Contrary to widespread belief, sex trafficking also targets lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) communities. Contemporary social and political constructions of victimhood lie at the heart of regulatory policies on sex trafficking. Led by the US Department of State, knowledge about LGBT victims of trafficking constitutes the newest frontier in the expansion of criminalization measures. These measures represent a crucial shift. From a burgeo…
Gender-Based Violence Without a Legal Gender
This article considers what the implications of decertification would be for single-sex services such as domestic and sexual violence support. Some reform options attached to decertification could (re)allocate authority away from the state to organisations or individuals to determine gender criteria. What would the consequences of such re-allocation be in determining eligibility to receive or access services or excluding people on the basis of a …
Reimagining Gender Through Equality Law
British equality law protections for sex and gender reassignment have grown fraught as activists tussle over legal and social categories of gender, gender transitioning, and sex. This article considers the future of gender-related equality protections in relation to ‘decertification’—an imagined reform that would detach sex and gender from legal personhood. One criticism of decertification is that de-formalising gender membership would undermine …
If the State Decertified Gender, What Might Happen to its Meaning and Value
As jurisdictions reform gender identity laws to accommodate transgender and intersex people, this article speculatively explores a more fundamental shift: eliminating state law's role in determining and assigning gender status altogether. Adopting a feminist perspective, we explore what the meaning and effects of comprehensively reforming legal gender might be upon gender's constitution as a socio‐legal property, differentially recognized and pro…
Disability, chronic illness and Covid-19
This article aims to consider the COVID-19 pandemic as a unique case study for analysing the relationship between utopia and failure in the context of disabled people's efforts to create COVID-safe communities and spaces. As such it contributes both to literature on disabled people's utopianism and analyses the relationship between utopia and failure from two different angles. Firstly, utopia and its relationship to failure is explored in the sen…
If the State Decertified Gender, What Might Happen to its Meaning and Value
As jurisdictions reform gender identity laws to accommodate transgender and intersex people, this article speculatively explores a more fundamental shift: eliminating state law's role in determining and assigning gender status altogether. Adopting a feminist perspective, we explore what the meaning and effects of comprehensively reforming legal gender might be upon gender's constitution as a socio‐legal property, differentially recognized and pro…
Deconstructing the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender victim of sex trafficking
Contrary to widespread belief, sex trafficking also targets lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) communities. Contemporary social and political constructions of victimhood lie at the heart of regulatory policies on sex trafficking. Led by the US Department of State, knowledge about LGBT victims of trafficking constitutes the newest frontier in the expansion of criminalization measures. These measures represent a crucial shift. From a burgeo…
Reimagining Gender Through Equality Law
British equality law protections for sex and gender reassignment have grown fraught as activists tussle over legal and social categories of gender, gender transitioning, and sex. This article considers the future of gender-related equality protections in relation to ‘decertification’—an imagined reform that would detach sex and gender from legal personhood. One criticism of decertification is that de-formalising gender membership would undermine …
Introduction to Special Issue
of Legal Gender project, which formally started in 2018 (in design from 2015), decided to research this question, to ask: Are there good reasons to continue to accord sex and gender legal status in Britain, including in light of developments elsewhere?In response to this question, we investigated contemporary socio-political uses of sex and gender categories, in Britain, as well as movements in other directions.With its manifold distinctions and …
Gender-Based Violence Without a Legal Gender
This article considers what the implications of decertification would be for single-sex services such as domestic and sexual violence support. Some reform options attached to decertification could (re)allocate authority away from the state to organisations or individuals to determine gender criteria. What would the consequences of such re-allocation be in determining eligibility to receive or access services or excluding people on the basis of a …
The Boundaries of Legal Personhood
By considering the death of the disability activist Engracia Figueroa as the consequence of her wheelchair being damaged by an airline, this article asks whether law could accommodate a definition of legal personhood that encompasses the possibility of bodies augmented by prosthetics, technology, and mobility aids. The use of mobility aids by disabled people and the role of prosthetic penises in so-called ‘gender fraud’ cases offer two useful pro…
Gender (de)certification and the home
This article considers three sites that draw out the contemporary role of gender categories in the home in the context of a wider project on gender decertification. Firstly, the presence of those who are employed to do care work in the home. Secondly, the introduction of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 and the way in which the parliamentary debates surrounding the introduction of the DAA highlight appropriate and inappropriate areas of legal interven…
Disability, chronic illness and Covid-19
This article aims to consider the COVID-19 pandemic as a unique case study for analysing the relationship between utopia and failure in the context of disabled people's efforts to create COVID-safe communities and spaces. As such it contributes both to literature on disabled people's utopianism and analyses the relationship between utopia and failure from two different angles. Firstly, utopia and its relationship to failure is explored in the sen…
Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (4 works) · Human rights (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Comparative law (2 works)